We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind alert.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

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Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.

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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but that makes our life in harmony with all existence. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

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I have spent a fortune travelling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass.

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